The sound of gongs and drums came from far and near, and by the moonlight, you could see a procession welcoming relatives slowly passing through the main street of Yong'an City.

Xing Ruyi dozed off and said to the fox beside him, "Is it really a kiss?" I don't know whose family is doing the marriage, but it was chosen at such an hour. ”

"What do you think, ma'am?"

Xing Ruyi looked up at the sky, "At this hour, it's either a monster taking a concubine, or a ghost fox marrying." I guess the sedan chair was not a mortal. ”

"What if there is a mortal sitting in the sedan chair?"

"Then I'll give you two little foxes? Do you want to bet? Xing Ruyi's eyes lit up.

The fox shook his head slowly: "If you don't fight, it seems that I can't get anything cheap no matter whether I win or lose." If I make this bet, I will lose. ”

"Well, it's worthy of an old vixen, this brain turns fast enough." Xing Ruyi sighed in disappointment, and when he looked again, the group of people had already carried the sedan chair and walked under their noses.

Relying on the moonlight and his fairly good eyesight, Xing Ruyi finally saw the appearance of those [people] clearly. The gongs and drums in front of them are all paper figures. The pinching is vivid, and the painting is lifelike. The sedan chair bearer is also a paper figure, but it is a little different from those who blow and blow, and these paper figures are obviously supported by a skeleton.

Just as Xing Ruyi was thinking about whether the skeletons of those paper figures were bamboo or wood, she smelled the smell of corpses, and it was the smell of old corpses that had been buried in the soil for a long time. Because it was so rotten, it didn't have that disgusting fishy smell, just a faint one, mixed with some earthy smell and some paper and paste.

"I'll go, this paper master is very willing to pay the cost." Xing Ruyi couldn't help but shake his head, pointed at the four sedan chair drivers and said, "Those four sedan chair drivers were actually pasted on human bones. ”

"Smell it?"

"Well, it smells. Although my eyesight is not as good as yours, this nose still works. It was also thanks to this gust of wind that the bones and the earthy smell were brought over. Although the person who blows and blows and carries the sedan chair is fake, how can I look at it, this sedan chair does not look like papier-mâché. ”

"Still sleepy?"

"I'm not sleepy." Xing Ruyi rubbed his eyes: "What are you asking for?" ”

"If you're not sleepy, let's go up and have a look."

"Really?" Xing Ruyi rubbed his hands: "Aren't you the most annoying for me to join in these fun?" ”

"Madame's hobbies, as a husband, how can she be easily deprived."

"Fox, have I ever praised you before?" Xing Ruyi blinked, then stretched out his hands and pounced: "I really love you too much." ”

The fox didn't respond for a while, Xing Ruyi quietly raised his head and glanced at him, only to find that this thousand-year-old fox had a rare red face.

"I can't say it, but I love you too."

"What did you say?" Xing Ruyi wrapped his arms around the fox's neck: "Again, the voice is a little louder, I don't seem to hear it clearly just now." ”

"It's not quite clear, forget it." The fox said, stopping his waist and hugging Xing Ruyi.

"No, you have to say it again." Xing Ruyi didn't give up, grabbing the placket of the fox's clothes: "It's rare for you to take the initiative to say that you love me, if I don't listen to it again, it's a great loss." ”

"Cunning! I didn't hear who said it just now. ”

"If you don't hear clearly, you don't hear clearly."

Xing Ruyi continued to pretend to be a scoundrel, anyway, the other party was her father-in-law, and occasionally playing tricks was regarded as adjusting the life of husband and wife.

"Do you still want to see the excitement? If you don't leave, it's too late. ”

"Don't play this trick with me, I'd rather not go to the excitement than listen to you say what you just said...... Yikes! Before Xing Ruyi could finish speaking, he was thrown down from the window by the fox. Seeing that he was about to fall to the ground and fall on his back, he was firmly caught in his arms.

"Stinky fox, dead fox, it's not exciting at all, it's not fun at all. Believe it or not, when dawn comes, I will go to the yamen to sue you for murdering your own wife. ”

"Murder of his own wife?"

"Yes, it's the murder of my own wife."

Xing Ruyi circled the fox's neck hard, lest he do it again. Although I know that the fox is reluctant to drop her, but now it is different from the past, she is older, and she is no longer the seventeen or eighteen-year-old little girl in Luoyang City, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, she will be afraid of heights, especially this unexpected height.

"Silly madam, do you think that if you sue the government like this, will the people in the government believe it?" The fox put Xing Ruyi on the ground. "Don't you really want to see the excitement?"

"Go!" Xing Ruyi gritted his teeth: "The account just now, I'll settle it with you when I come back after watching the excitement, hum!" ”

"Humph!" The fox replied to her, and then looked at Xing Ruyi's angry back and smiled.

Actually, it's pretty good to tease his little wife once in a while.

The two followed the welcoming team out of Yong'an City and into a forest on the outskirts. The snow in the suburbs was darker than in the city, and the paper figures were fluttering one by one. Those who carried the sedan chair were obviously in some trouble, because there was a physical skeleton as a support, and every time they stepped on it, their feet would sink to varying degrees.

The snow covered the paper, and the paper got wet, revealing the bones wrapped in the paper. The sedan chair also slanted up.

With a fox with him, Xing Ruyi was not afraid of being discovered by this strange welcoming team. She only felt that the sedan chair seemed too heavy, as if it was a real bride sitting in it.

Thinking of the words that the fox asked her rhetorically in the inn, she couldn't help but glance at the fox out of the corner of her eye.

"Is there a real person sitting in the sedan chair?"

"Madame, why be in a hurry, you will know when you get to the place."

"Do you know where these paper figures are going?"

"I don't know, but I soon know."

"Yin Chensi."

"Huh?"

"I see you're getting underwhelmed."

"Really? I do think that I have done very well in recent days, and I deserve to be rewarded by my wife. ”

"What's so good?"

"Why should Madame pretend to be stupid? Isn't that right now? ”

The fox gave her a look and let her experience it alone. Xing Ruyi looked at his feet, hmm. All the way was held. Especially in the cold weather in recent days, she has eaten more than usual, and she is quite tired after touching the fox and hugging her all the way.

The silver-white moonlight shines through the sparse branches and leaves and falls on the snow, shining deep and shallow, mottled traces. As we went deeper and deeper into the woods, the sound of gongs and drums and suona became intermittent. Just when Xing Ruyi was about to get up to look at the welcoming team, he found two red lanterns hanging on the treetops not far away.

"It's here!"

The fox whispered, placing Xing Ruyi on an extended branch.

Xing Ruyi saw that the sedan chair carried by the paper man stopped. Then a bride in a wedding dress was dragged out of the palanquin by one of the paper figures.

When Fang was in the sedan chair, he didn't see any traces of the bride's struggle, thinking that some spell had been cast to make her sleep all the way. When I arrived at the place, the person was pulled out of the sedan chair, and as soon as the cold wind blew, he was sober. When she saw the situation in front of her, the bride instantly lost control and struggled.

The two paper figures walked over and pressed the bride by the hand, as if to force her to worship with something.

Xing Ruyi's eyes widened, only to find that in front of the bride was a tombstone. She couldn't help but sigh twice and asked the fox: "Is there a case of a tombstone robbing a bride in this folk?" ”

"Tombstones?" The fox shook his head: "I've never heard of it." ”

"Since there isn't, it's the owner of the tomb who is doing the trick." Xing Ruyi held her chin and watched the poor bride cry and struggle under the compulsion of the paper man. "I always think your temper is strange enough, but I didn't expect this tomb owner to be even more strange. robbed the bride to come over, but was unwilling to show up to worship with others, does this like others, or dislike others? Could it be that this tomb owner really looks a little unsightly? ”

As he was talking, he found that the paper figures were gone, leaving only a bright red sedan chair in front of the tombstone, and the bride who knelt on the ground in front of the sedan chair.

"Looks like it's over."

Xing Ruyi jumped down from the branch with the fox's arm, and then walked to the bride with a deep foot and a shallow foot. She first looked at the tombstone and found that it was a wordless tablet, without any words on the tablet, nor any decorations and totems.

Judging from the grave bag behind the tombstone, it should be an old tomb, and the owner of the tomb has been dead for at least a few decades.

"It's just that I can't see people, I'm still an old ghost."

Xing Ruyi complained, squatted down, and checked the bride's situation. As the fox said before, this bride is an ordinary mortal. looks delicate, looks old, but fifteen or sixteen years old. Because she was so frightened that her face was a little whiter than the snow on the ground.

After waking up the bride, she neither cried nor screamed, but just leaned against the tombstone, looked at Xing Ruyi and the fox and muttered, "Who are you?" Is it a human or a ghost? ”

"Of course we are people, I don't believe you touch my hand, it's not hot." Xing Ruyi handed over his hand: "What about you, are you a human or a ghost, why are you dressed like this in the middle of the night and still sleeping in front of the tombstone?" ”

"I'm human too. I was forcibly carried here by the paper figures. ”

"You know?"

"Hmm!" The bride nodded: "It's been many times." The paper figures always carried me over in the middle of the night and forced me to marry this tombstone. Nothing else hurt me. ”

"You mean, it's not the first time, and it won't be the last?"

"Since I turned sixteen, every three months, those paper figures have come to my door." The bride gritted her teeth: "My mother invited a Taoist priest and a monk, but it seems that it is useless." ”